Dr. Sam Potolicchio as Keynote Speaker: A Highlight of the EAC Summit 2025

The upcoming EAC Summit promises an outstanding platform for learning, networking, and innovation. Industry experts will address key topics such as sustainability, digital transformation, global supply chains, and cross-border politics.

A special highlight of the event is the keynote by Dr. Sam Potolicchio, a globally recognized expert on geopolitical trends. With his dynamic approach to leadership and strategy, he has spoken in over 85 countries and has been a speaker at prestigious institutions. He has been recognized by the Princeton Review as one of “America’s Best Professors,” named the Future Leader of American Higher Education by the Association of Colleges and Universities, and was also profiled in a cover story on his leadership curriculum by Newsweek Japan as the "Best Professor in America."

Potolicchio is the President of the Preparing Global Leaders Forum and also teaches in Executive Education EMBA programs at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown and at the Mannheim Business School (Germany). He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Bologna (Italy) and teaches two classes (US Political Systems and Preparing to Be President) to Georgetown University undergraduates.

He is a columnist for Newsweek Japan, a Distinguished Global Scholar at the Canterbury School of Fort Myers, and the lecturer on Leadership at the Library of Congress for COIL, an international leadership program of the United States Congress.

Potolicchio has served as the Distinguished University Professor, Department Chairman, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at RANEPA, Russia, Director of Global and Custom Education at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, a visiting Professor at NYU's DC campus, and co-taught with Senator Richard Lugar at UIndy's Semester in Washington Program.

Potolicchio has delivered lectures in over 85 countries, from Oxford, LSE, Cambridge, and Yale to Iraq's Komar University and Donetsk State University. As a middle-school basketball coach, he led his Little Hoyas to six league titles and previously served as a 5th-grade Latin teacher, public high school teacher of Law and History, and secondary school admissions officer.

Academic Background:

- B.A. Government, Georgetown

- B.A. Psychology, Georgetown

- M.T.S. Theology and Culture, Harvard

- PRSE, Harvard

- M.A. Government, Georgetown

- Ph.D. Government, Georgetown

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